Re: Where **not** to use PostgreSQL?

2019-02-28 Thread Nicolas Grilly
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 2:12 PM Chris Travers wrote: > Where I did this on the TB scale, we had some sort of ranking but it was > not based on ts_rank. > > On the PB scale systems I work on now, it is distributed, and we don't > order in PostgreSQL (or anywhere else, though if someone wants to wr

Re: Where **not** to use PostgreSQL?

2019-02-28 Thread Nicolas Grilly
. It's because the indexes don't contain the necessary information for ranking, and because of this the heap has to be consulted, which implies a lot of random IO. I'd be curious to know a bit more about your experience in this regard. Regards, Nicolas Grilly PS: A potential s

Re: Is there a way to speed up WAL replay?

2018-10-31 Thread Nicolas Grilly
This tool may be useful: https://github.com/joyent/pg_prefaulter Faults pages into PostgreSQL shared_buffers or filesystem caches in advance of WAL apply Nicolas On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 6:38 AM Torsten Förtsch wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on restoring a database from a base backup + WAL. With